In 1975, I went to school at Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the teacher I followed at that time was called Bei Liangzhong, who was born in 1928, and he was 47 years old at the time, a lovely gentleman who was eager for books and humorous and talkative.
In the days after the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, Teacher Bei changed his humor and humor and became depressed all day, even smoking paper cigarettes that he had quit for many years.
After class one day, he stopped me, first asked about my studies, then sighed deeply, and said quietly: We must cherish the current time, study hard, the weather is unpredictable, and people have bad luck.
Because I and other teachers' hometowns are only a few tens of miles apart, even if I am a fellow countryman, he usually takes more care of me, communicates privately more than other students, and understands him more deeply, but at this moment, in the face of his sudden feelings, I am also confused for a while.
He did not continue his feelings, and his voice became positive and firm: "Xiao Li, do you know what is the secret of Chinese medicine?" ”
My heart beat faster, didn't the teacher want to give me a face-to-face teaching machine?
The secret of Chinese medicine lies in quantity
Teacher Bei saw the excitement in my eyes, but still just calmly began to talk, and at the beginning, he told me the conclusion - the secret of Chinese medicine lies in the dose, that is, the amount of the medicine.
He went on to say:
There are many classic books of Chinese medicine that have been handed down to the world, but whether it is your textbooks or the classic medical books "On Typhoid Fever", the dosage of the prescription you see is basically fixed, and the medication has a certain range.
But in fact, in the actual application process, the dosage of the drug is ever-changing, yin and yang, intricate, and even has become the secret of the Chinese medicine family.
For example, astragalus - within 20 grams, its diuretic effect is obvious, more than 30 grams, it tends to bottleneck, began to appear inhibition; within 15 grams, can raise blood pressure, but to more than 35 grams, but will lower blood pressure.
For example, white surgery - normal dosage can strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, and large doses of 30 to 60 grams can benefit qi and laxative.
For example, mint - with less than 3 grams can thin the liver wood, used to more than 15 grams, then the dissipation of wind and heat, clear the leader.
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When it comes to the dosage of appendages, teacher Bei told me about a medical case he testified to, a patient, stomach swelling pain, a doctor with Gui Zhili Intang flavor treatment, of which the appendage 6 grams, after taking 6 doses of medicine, its effect is not good, after asking other teachers to treat, he after the dialectic, boldly increase the dosage to 40 grams, the rest remain unchanged. Only three doses of the drug were taken, and its evidence was greatly reduced.
After talking about the medical case of the appendage, teacher Bei concluded that the mental method of this extremely toxic medicine when using the appendage is "the evil is great and the right is not vain" and "if the right and evil should be small", come, I will tell you how to distinguish the falseness of good and evil, you write it down, this will be of great benefit to you in the future to send prescriptions for medicine.
I picked up my notebook and wrote down a full page and a half.
Forty years later
The crystallization of experience and knowledge summarized from the practice of clinical evidence, through forty years of time, is still shining, and in 2015, I once again put it into practice to treat a COPD patient.
Ms. Liu, who was 54 years old at the time, had suffered from COPD for half a year, and had intermittently taken more than 60 doses of Traditional Chinese medicine in many places, but it had no effect, and she also took red ginseng, clams and other powder medicines for a long time.
After the above methods of Traditional Chinese and Western medicine were ineffective, they were introduced to me for treatment.
Immediate symptoms: cough and phlegm, occasional yellow sputum, wheezing and chest tightness, cold intolerance of the back and both lower limbs - she herself described that her legs are immersed in cold water, waist pain, fatigue, frequent urination, defecation is laborious, diet can be.
I noticed two images of his tongue veins: the tongue moss was covered with yellow on a white background, and the veins were deep and thin. Therefore, the diagnosis: wind and cold hit the lungs, cold and humidity block the lung network, spleen and kidney loss.
Segmented therapy is the first stage of treatment
In the initial stage, I mainly focused on dispelling external evil and dispelling cold and dryness:
Preparation of attached tablets (first fry for two hours), guizhi tip, bai shu, stone calamus, half summer, bili nanxing, white mustard seed, oil magnolia, melon peel, hawthorn, orange red, almonds, hot licorice, ginger, etc. Twice a day, avoid cold and greasy.
When I finished opening the formula, when my assistant Xiao Chen entered it into the computer, he saw that 60 grams were used to make the attached film, and he was a little surprised, so he asked me for verification, and I said, Yes, this is the amount.
This fledgling young man naturally did not understand, he only knew to follow the teachings in the textbooks - the appendages are very toxic, and they should be used in small quantities and with caution.
But I don't know, forty years ago, my teacher gave me oral teachings of the heart method - the medicine itself has no medicinal properties, the medicine is just a kind of adjustment, when the drug enters the human body, it is a command to our yuan qi, so that the yuan qi becomes a medicinal property and reaches the lesion, then that is to say, as long as the patient's yuan qi is enough, you can increase the amount of appendages, let it order the yuan qi to go in the body to purify and dispel the disease.
On the contrary, if the vitality is insufficient, it is not easy to call. In this case, Ms. Liu is precisely a person with sufficient vitality. This is the secret of the size of the appendage, which was witnessed by my teacher at that time.
After taking this medicine for a month and a half, Ms. Liu's chest tightness and asthma were greatly reduced, and her two stools were smooth and her spirit improved.
Treatment phase II
The second stage of treatment is mainly to relieve the cold and thin the lungs, and I used the following prescription:
Make an attached tablet (as usual, 60 grams, first fry for two hours) Guizhi tip, Bai Shu, Stone Calamus, Half Summer, White Mustard Seed, Sand Kernel, Hawthorn, Orange Red, Almond, Burning Licorice, Aster, Ginger, etc.
After taking the medicine twice a day for more than a month, Ms. Liu's condition gradually improved, and the cough, asthma and low back pain and other diseases that had been delayed for several months went away, Ms. Liu shouted relaxed, followed by asking, no need to take medicine anymore, right? I've had enough. I said: Don't worry.
The third stage of treatment
At this time, Ms. Liu's condition has entered a period of remission, and efforts should be made to enhance lung function.
During this period, her lungs and kidney qi were relatively weak, and after I discriminated, I asked Ms. Liu to scatter the Liuwei Dihuang Pill and the Yuping Feng at the same time - borrowing the Yuping Feng to supplement the spleen and health, yiqi solidifying the table, and borrowing the Liuwei Dihuang Pill to nourish the yin and supplement the kidneys.
The above ideas actually come from the holistic philosophy of Chinese medicine:
Chinese medicine believes that COPD is caused by the weakness and damage of the three major organs of the spleen, lungs and kidneys, and if it is to be completely cured, it is necessary to rationally and comprehensively adjust these three major organs and help correct the foundation.
Half a year later, Ms. Liu, who felt relaxed, went to a local top three hospital and did a comprehensive lung function examination, and several of the key indicators, the first second force expiratory volume (FEV1), forced lung capacity (FVC) and FEV1/FVC, the values were stable and no different from ordinary people.
Ms. Liu told me the results of the report, and this time I said, "You don't have to take any more medicine now."